The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-09

would make no difference what the
condition of fellows stomach was, 1t
was not for the good of society that
fellow should puke.
All these laws are not peculiar to
the transatlantic countries; we have
them in Massachusetts, and in all the
old colonies. They had law in Mas
sachusetts that man should not be
out after o'clock, but must be in
bed; and if caught out after 8 o'clock
they punished him by a fine OF 10
shillings and lashed him from time to
time; all that was for the good of So
ciety.
In Connecticut they had law that
no unmarried man should keep house
by himself, and that no head OF fam
lily should let him sleep under his roof.
| suppose he could 60 out and sleep
with the dogs. Wish we could have
something of that sort herr, but they
say we amt going to have anything
of that sort, time amt come yet. You
know just what they said when they
talked about organizing this little
National Prohibition party. Dahoney
and few others wanted to go ahead
Ind let slip the dogs o. war, but some
of them, more cautious than the
others, said: "Tain't time yet. We
have got 100000 Democratic majority
in this State. If you spread that net
in sight of the bird it VIII run away"
So the dodgers in their conventions
and in their churches declared that
prohibition was purely moral idea.
Now, whoever heard of moral idea
being nou-political, rs they said it
was, that had TO go to the ballot box
and be voted on, aud go TO the legis-
lature and be made laws on Jap
plausel, and required sherifls and con
stables TO break down your doors and
go into your houses to hunt for "blind
tigers?" If these fellows would con-
Germ themselves more about their own
individual cases and let their neigh
boris alone it would probably be better
tor all parties concerned. A great
Teacher said to the Pharisces some
two thousand years ago, and
it was said for the benc-
lit OF the Pharasees to-day, you are
looking for the mote in your neighbour
eye, and have got saw-log in your
own" 1t would be great deal better
if they would attend to their own bust
ness, and let ours alone.
They haze got other fellows to come
and capture the democratic party, but
they come back to the old question of
morals now, the Sunday school question
again, and now they want 10 come up
and lay down your right of individual
self-government, and take your orders
from them, Pass this bill, and it won't
be long before any of you who want
to go out of doors or 10 feet, will
have to go to the prohibition party ard
get pass. (Applause). Now let us
90 back, and | will give you the great
principles of self-government. as laid
down by our fathers in the declaration
of independence, that liberty is inal-
ienable, you cannot part with it, 1t is
the pedestal upon which you build all, |
and from which you derive all your
blessing, man must be free when he
enters into a compact with the govern
ment, and there is one thing he must |
always reserve, and that is his right to
dictate his individual self-goverDment;
he must be permitted to say where he
will 60. how long he will stay. when he
will come back, when go to bed, when
he will get up, what clothes he wears,
" hat faith he believes in, what he eats
and what he drinks, and we acknowl-
edge no censors in this line, and least
of all. do we acknowledge the censor
ship of political priesthood. We will
give these people to understand what
they (our Fathers) meant when they
said the church and state must be per-
petually divorced they have been
stealing up on us. have been talking
around their firesides and in their pull